IRS missing laptop with employee data
The IRS said that one of its laptops containing data about 291 IRS employees and job applicants went missing in early May when it was lost in transit to an agency event.
When data walks
The Veterans Affairs Department probably is not the only agency whose security and privacy policies have gaping holes. The recent theft of data on 26.5 million veterans sends agencies a chilling message: Lock down your own data security and privacy policies immediately or you might wind up with confidential data walking out your own door.
HHS posts comparative price data on medical procedures
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services today posted on its Web site what Medicare pays for 30 common elective procedures and other hospital admissions.
VA changes staff over data theft
The Veterans Affairs Department announced that one official has resigned and other personnel changes have been made as a result of the theft of personal data of 26.5 million veterans.
VA outlines data security upgrades
The Veterans Affairs Department is tightening its data security policies in response to the theft of sensitive, private electronic data of 26.5 million veterans.
OMB releases financial-management guidance
The Migration Planning Guidance aims to answer procedural questions and provide insight when agencies conduct competitions for financial-management services from a public or private shared-service provider.
States to assess privacy laws for HHS health IT effort
<font color="CC0000">(Updated)</font> The Health and Human Services Department today announced that RTI International Inc. has subcontracted with 22 states and territories to evaluate their privacy laws and how they may hinder data exchange as part of HHS' health IT efforts.
OMB to agencies: Review personal data protections
The Office of Management and Budget has directed agencies' senior privacy officials to review and correct any policies and processes to ensure that they protect against misuse of or unauthorized access to personally identifiable information.
VA data files on millions of veterans stolen
<font color="CC0000">(Updated)</font> The Veterans Affairs Department today revealed that personal, identifying data for as many as 26 million American veterans was stolen from a VA employee's home in May.
HHS, advisory group advance lab data-sharing
The Health and Human Services Department took steps toward making an early version of an interoperable electronic health record system a reality. HHS and its public-private advisory group, the American Health Information Community, this week set dates for milestones toward a standardized and widely available system that will be available next year to access laboratory results.
DHS lays the groundwork for biosurveillance
If bird flu erupts in the United States, the Homeland Security Department's access to real-time data will be vital in spotting its emergence. With that in mind, DHS is developing the National Biosurveillance Integration System to track and combine data it will receive electronically from several agencies' public health, food, animal, air and water monitoring systems.
Justice to gauge agencies' case management needs
The Justice Department will gather case management requirements through the summer of other agencies that conduct law enforcement.
OMB to spell out financial LOB process
If competition is the foundation of the Office of Management and Budget's Financial Management Line of Business Consolidation initiative, the administration's migration planning guidance will be the blueprint agencies need to really understand how to assemble it.
Pandemic plans give teleworking key role
Agencies at last may take teleworking seriously, as the administration has made it a critical piece of its strategy to keep the government operating in the face of a pandemic.
DHS to develop biosurveillance system for pandemic
The Homeland Security Department expects to award a contract in mid-summer to develop the National Biosurveillance Integration System, a critical piece of the administration's strategy to handle a pandemic, such as avian flu.
NOAA awards high-performance computing contract
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is procuring services for all its applied R&D high-performance computing requirements across the agency to achieve economies of scale.
Data analysis to let GSA make real-property decisions
The General Services Administration will be able to make informed decisions starting next year about whether to maintain or sell federal real property as a result of standardizing the collection of certain data and acquiring the technical capability to analyze that data
Budget cuts could slow IRS modernization
The IRS may take longer and have to pay more over the long term to modernize its business systems because the administration dramatically reduced funding for the program in its proposed fiscal 2007 budget. The Government Accountability Office and the IRS Oversight Board told lawmakers that IRS Business Systems Modernization should receive more funding to accelerate its progress.
DOD awards health management deal
The Defense Department has awarded an $11.5 million contract to System Planning Corp. of Arlington, Va., for force health protection and readiness.
NOAA awards network ops work
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded Merlin Technical Solutions a contract to install and maintain network operations hardware and software for the agency's Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services.
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